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[elijah <address@concealed>]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Sergiy Zhuk wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Stewart James wrote:
>
> > From reading the docs I can see that I would be notified at 95%. While
> > this is useful, is there a way to specify - per list - either the
> > automatic removal of earlier messages. Or even better, the ability to
> > specify how long to keep an archived message - you know auto remove
> > anything older than 'X period'.
>
> currently, sympa doesn't have that functionality, but you can run 'find' in
> the arc directory for a particular list, which will do the trick for now.
> $ find . -mtime +N -delete
> In theory, you have to run that command for msg archive and then run mhonarc
> to rebuild html archives, but the find command above is acceptable for me
> even if run vs both msg and html archives.

If you ran

> find . -mtime +N -delete -type f

Would you still need to run mhonarc? If you remove entire folders, you
should be ok, right?

-elijah